Implicit Bias of the JKO Scheme

Researchers analyzed the implicit bias of the Jordan-Kinderlehrer-Otto (JKO) scheme, a time-discretization method for Wasserstein gradient flow used in optimizing energy functionals over probability measures. They found that the JKO scheme adds a deceleration term at second order that corresponds to canonical implicit biases like Fisher information for entropy and kinetic energy for Riemannian gradient descent.